I Don't Want to Miss a Thing!” John Mellencamp, “Little Pink Houses. to get this future interest to vest on time”) Aerosmith, “I don't want to close my eyes, I don't want to fall asleep, I just want to finish this OGM abstract and. Not In My Back Yard” David Bowie, “Modern Rule Against Perpetuities” (“Lord I'll try. but I had to file a bankruptcy” Credence Clearwater Revival, “doo, doo, doo. To set the mood I will henceforth speak in legalese.* According to the foregoing, the items set forth below, incorporated herein by reference thereto, represent a non-exhaustive list of song titles and/or lyrics that might have been penned if only the artists were real property lawyers, including, but not limited to, the following, to wit: Eric Clapton, “I Stayed the Sheriff. As for me, I am well aware of how law school and twenty-plus years in the legal profession have warped both hemispheres of my brain. As I drive down the road listening to music across many genres, the lawyer in me wonders how different the titles and lyrics might be if someone of my professional ilk had written them. The “poetry” I contemplate demonstrates why lawyers are not generally consulted for song composition. Weird Al Yankovic, reportedly trained to be an Architect in college, fortunately for all of us did not limit his parodies to dry T-square humor. Maybe Weird Al abandoned architecture for his lucrative singing gig well before his mind was completely overtaken by geometry and physics.
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